A MEMBER of Jose Carrillo’s Forum who goes by the user name Baklis asked me this tough question recently: “How does the perfect tense in the passive voice differ from the perfect tense in the active ...

When you can’t properly situate or correlate different actions or events as they happen in time, it’s symptomatic of an inadequate grasp of the perfect tenses in the passive voice. This was evidently ...

perfect j’ai été, tu as été, il a été, nous avons été, vous avez été, ils ont été imperfect j’étais, tu étais, il était, nous étions, vous étiez, ils étaient near future je vais être, tu vas être, ...

Regarding the April 27 Bilingual page article, "Stop worrying and embrace the passive tense": Sorry to nitpick, but I think someone writing a column on language is obliged to be careful about ...

The passive voice is an important grammatical structure that appears in every form of written and spoken English. Knowledge of this construction is vital for reading and writing English in everyday ...

If you’ve ever had any writing training, either at school or on the job, you’ve probably been warned off the passive voice. Your high school English teacher, all the business writing books, and scores ...

In this lesson, Joe talks about the different uses of passive voice. Hi I'm Joe. And today we're looking at how to use passive voice in academic writing. Passive voice can be used in most contexts. It ...

For many writers, feedback that your copy is "too passive" can be frustrating. The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications ...